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Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 15h

I’m queer, autistic, and disabled so this is really one of the few sources of income I have right now. Any help, whether that’s through boosting my stuff or commissioning me, goes further than you know 🩷 I’m TwinklePopKandiShop on Instagram if you want to see more or DM there 🩷

Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 15h

Henlo friends 🩷 Ends are meeting less and less frequently as of late, so just a reminder that I take kandi commissions! I’m running a 10% off sale through October and I do everything from singles to big ol’ cuffs 🩷 I ship in the continental US and I can do any color or theme!

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Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 15h

I make ‘em funny, I make ‘em aesthetic, everything from cottagecore to horror to memes to reminders to take your meds or eat! If you can think it up, I can make it for you, and if I can think it up I’ll probably make that too and send it as a gift with your order 🩷

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Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 15h

Adding a bunch of my work so if you see anything you like or inspiration strikes, we can get you one of these pieces or something brand new and one of a kind 🩷

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Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 15h

Henlo friends 🩷 Ends are meeting less and less frequently as of late, so just a reminder that I take kandi commissions! I’m running a 10% off sale through October and I do everything from singles to big ol’ cuffs 🩷 I ship in the continental US and I can do any color or theme!

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Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 2d

For those “best friends” that you live with and kiss and will grow old with

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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 3d

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Moony! 🔜 Cal Anderson 10/12 @kittyskandis.bsky.social · 2d

if u like ur drinks ice cold #kandi glaceon 🐾

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Buggy is Kandi posting @buggydraws.bsky.social · 3d

Been enjoying making chunky x-base cuffs recently :3

☆ #kandi #handmade #kandicuff #scenecore ☆

A chunky kandi bracelet made in the x-base stitch. the base is mainly black with bright lime green beads. The raised portion has alternating crosses in translucent uv lime and green, with the lime sections having a black star in the center and the green sections having a lime star at the center

the same bracelet, this time better angled to show the inside of black crosses which is mainly black with lime green centers and edge connections

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Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 3d

I need a man who yearns. Real pining, aching, burning type shit. Real Orpheus vibes and a soul that cries out in the dark for mine. Is that really too much to ask??

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 5d

As much as folks might not want to believe it, artists who sell their work cannot survive exclusively on platforms that cater to primarily other artists. The Circulating The Same Five Dollars™️ model can't feed us or pay bills for long. We need places where we can be seen and discovered.

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Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 4d

And it’s queer inclusive, diverse, doesn’t have racist stereotypes or names, and tbh the character development makes more sense. I love it and I don’t feel bad about it. I reduced my harmful impact as much as I could and now I just rely on me for content since canon stuff feels out of character now

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Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 4d

I loved the movies and books growing up, but when I saw how deeply flawed to the core they were I knew I couldn’t be out here defending them in any way. I’m autistic and the HP universe has always been my escape, but now I can escape to a better version that doesn’t monetarily support a terf.

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Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 4d

It’s funny because the way I coped with JKR being a shithead was to pull all support for her and her works and instead write my own versions to love. I don’t post them because I don’t want to fuel transphobes need for content, but I occasionally share them with friends.

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Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 4d

Writing fanfiction and eating ice cream to stave off the sad.

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Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you!!! I’m nothing if not hopelessly in love with pink and also horror LMAO My Chappell Roan concert fit honored both with the guillotine earrings

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Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 5d

The art vs the artist 🩷🌸🌺

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 6d

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.

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Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 7d

For real tho life has been a biiiiiiiitch. Doing what I can to tread water but woof, ya know?

Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 7d

IM SO EXCITEDDDDD

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Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 7d

Disappeared cuz life’s a bitch but I have good news

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Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 12d

Being autistic is hard sometimes.

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Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 12d

No one in my life wants to play Minecraft with me but I’m learning they’re playing Minecraft with other people so I think I’m the problem but I don’t know what I did so now I’m back to being 9, told that I need to stop following my friends around, wondering what I did wrong :))))))) so fun and cool

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Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 12d

That is such a good idea!! I’ll make a little list and a subcategory of lists of ideas to use the beads for. I think that will help a lot. Ugh, I hate this. If money weren’t real I could just make a million things and give them away and then get more supplies without worrying but capitalism 😭

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Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 12d

I’m absolutely going to have to do the same. Like it’s becoming so unhealthy for me. I used kandi to help replace a harmful behavior of mine but I’m realizing that now I’m using buy supplies as a coping mechanism so we’re cutting that supply off right away. I hate it, but I have to

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Salem 😚🫶🏻 @quartzpumpkin.bsky.social · 12d

And now I feel even more dumb because guess what came in the mail today?

MORE FUCKING CHARMS. And I have MORE CHARMS ON THE WAY THATLL GET HERE IN LOKE TWO DAYS.

Fucking hell. Please just let this business go anywhere, I love creating and this shit makes me feel alive but I’m drowning myself.

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